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Attention. Girls from Camp Joseph Scott, a juvenile detention facility for girls from ages 12 to 19, stand at attention in their single room dor mitory. The girls are separated into platoons to help to maintain order. Many of the girls at Camp Scott come from low-income, single-parent
Organization supports girls in juvenile system
Girls and Gangs helps youth from low-income, high-crime areas who have been arrested
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Writer
It all began with a fistfight between two sisters.
Adela Ramirez and her sister started lighting at home and their mother, afraid of what might happen, called the police.
Ramirez, 20, spent a good part of her late teens in four different detention facilities in Southern California.
First, it was a Los Angeles Juvenile HalL Next the Dorothy Kirby Center, where she underwent intensive anger and mental health management Then it was Camp Omzuka. one of two allgirl probation camps in the area. And finally, an adult jail facility.
Riamirez. who left the jail at 19, has been out for about a year.
At 16. it did not surprise her that she was headed to juvenile hall — she had always been an angry child.
When Ramirez was 2, her father died from a stroke. At 4, her mother had to have surgery and was later classified as disabled. Ramirez and her sister were sent to a foster home for half a year.
She credits the foster home with instilling anger inside of her — the people running the facility would not allow her and her sister to play together, not allow them to share toys and not allow them to express emotion.
“My mom would come (to the foster home) and I would cry because I wanted to go home," she said. “They said if I cried I wouldn't be able to see her.”
When it was time to go home, she was never the same.
In school. Ramirez said she got kicked out for fighting. She became associated with violent male gang members and assaulted people if they approached her aggressively
She wanted individual attention that both the people at the foster home and her mom refused to give her.
“She never asked me how my day at school was." she said.
More Coverage
Read what it is like to live at Camp Joseph Scott, from the 105 girls all living in one building to tea parties and book clubs hosted by a probation officer. 9
Alone. A girl sits in isolation after misbehaving, which is indicated by the green shirt she must wear.
Similar situations
Many of the girls in the Los Angeles County Probation Department — be it in the camps, treatment centers or delinquency halls — come from situations similar to Ramirez.
Ramirez was involved with the Girls and Gangs organization, a mentoring program that assists girls who go through the juvenile system, according to the project's Web site. The majority of girls are non-white
with Hispamcs and blacks being the two largest groups.
“They typically come from low-income. high-cn me neighborhoods and single-parent homes where they have seen or experienced violence. Thev do poorly in school, abuse drugs." according to the Web site.
A number of girls in the mentoring program are at Camp Joseph Scott a residential treatment center just north of Los Angeles
see Oanft page •
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High of 78, lowofOZ Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 73. low 51
Student
receives
NAACP
award
Master’s student Akela Cooper won the fellowship, which was designed for minority USC students.
By CINDY SANTOS
Contributing Writer
Akela Cooper, a master's student studying writing for screen and television, is the first recipient of the NAACP/CBS Fellowship, a partnership and $20,000 scholarship that helps minority students break into the off-screen side of the entertainment industry.
The NAACP/CBS Fellowship, designed for minority students who offer innovative entertainment perspectives, was created especially for the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Cinema-Television faculty members recommended Cooper for the fellowship. Cooper was initially asked to submit a personal statement highlighting why she wanted to continue her education and her version of a script for an existing television program. Cooper submitted a script she created for the cancelled Fox comedy "Arrested Development.”
She found out during the course of a casual interview with NAACP Hollywood Bureau executive director Vic Bulluck and a representative from CBS that she would be awarded the fellowship.
“I was ecstatic and my first thought was 'I have to call my mom,'”
I see Fellowship page 3 I
INDEX
The men s water polo team will have the home-pool advantage this weekend. 16
“The Colored Museum" ends its three-day run. 7
Newt Digest—2 Sports---------18
Upcoming--------2 Classifieds—12
Opinions.....4 Lifestyle™—™.-.7
RIAA sues four USC students
The RIAA sent subpoenas to USC requesting names and information of students.
By NANCY RODRIGUEZ
Staff Writer
The Recording Industry Association of America has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 745 individuals at 17 college
campuses nationwide, including four USC students.
The students have yet to be contacted and identified by USC, but the subpoenas have been sent to the university requesting the names of four IP address users. Once the university receives the subpoenas, the students will be notified of their lawsuit.
This is the fourth round of lawsuits the RIAA has filed against individual file sharers. The RIAA has filed
about 15,500 lawsuits against users for illegally distributed copyrighted material. Of those 15,500 lawsuits, more than 3,500 have been settled.
The RIAA held an online press conference Friday featuring Cary Sherman, the president of the RIAA, who addressed college journalists regarding the recent lawsuits across college campuses. An RIAA representative moderated the hour-long press conference.
“We know that file-sharing will continue, just as physical piracy will always continue no matter what we do. We all recognize that the most important thing we can do to deal with illegal activity online is give consumers a better alternative — a legal service that they love,” Sherman wrote. “That’s what lots of companies are now doing, and we hope that ultimately the legitimate mar-I see RIAA, page 3 I
www.dailytrojan.com
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
November 22, 2005
Vol. CXL VII. No. 64
INSIDE
The men's basketball team lost in overtime Sunday to Cal State Northridge. 16
Thanksgiving: Daily Trojan resumes publication Tuesday, Nov. 29.2(X)5.

Attention. Girls from Camp Joseph Scott, a juvenile detention facility for girls from ages 12 to 19, stand at attention in their single room dor mitory. The girls are separated into platoons to help to maintain order. Many of the girls at Camp Scott come from low-income, single-parent
Organization supports girls in juvenile system
Girls and Gangs helps youth from low-income, high-crime areas who have been arrested
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Writer
It all began with a fistfight between two sisters.
Adela Ramirez and her sister started lighting at home and their mother, afraid of what might happen, called the police.
Ramirez, 20, spent a good part of her late teens in four different detention facilities in Southern California.
First, it was a Los Angeles Juvenile HalL Next the Dorothy Kirby Center, where she underwent intensive anger and mental health management Then it was Camp Omzuka. one of two allgirl probation camps in the area. And finally, an adult jail facility.
Riamirez. who left the jail at 19, has been out for about a year.
At 16. it did not surprise her that she was headed to juvenile hall — she had always been an angry child.
When Ramirez was 2, her father died from a stroke. At 4, her mother had to have surgery and was later classified as disabled. Ramirez and her sister were sent to a foster home for half a year.
She credits the foster home with instilling anger inside of her — the people running the facility would not allow her and her sister to play together, not allow them to share toys and not allow them to express emotion.
“My mom would come (to the foster home) and I would cry because I wanted to go home," she said. “They said if I cried I wouldn't be able to see her.”
When it was time to go home, she was never the same.
In school. Ramirez said she got kicked out for fighting. She became associated with violent male gang members and assaulted people if they approached her aggressively
She wanted individual attention that both the people at the foster home and her mom refused to give her.
“She never asked me how my day at school was." she said.
More Coverage
Read what it is like to live at Camp Joseph Scott, from the 105 girls all living in one building to tea parties and book clubs hosted by a probation officer. 9
Alone. A girl sits in isolation after misbehaving, which is indicated by the green shirt she must wear.
Similar situations
Many of the girls in the Los Angeles County Probation Department — be it in the camps, treatment centers or delinquency halls — come from situations similar to Ramirez.
Ramirez was involved with the Girls and Gangs organization, a mentoring program that assists girls who go through the juvenile system, according to the project's Web site. The majority of girls are non-white
with Hispamcs and blacks being the two largest groups.
“They typically come from low-income. high-cn me neighborhoods and single-parent homes where they have seen or experienced violence. Thev do poorly in school, abuse drugs." according to the Web site.
A number of girls in the mentoring program are at Camp Joseph Scott a residential treatment center just north of Los Angeles
see Oanft page •
WEATHER
Today: Partly cloudy. High of 78, lowofOZ Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 73. low 51
Student
receives
NAACP
award
Master’s student Akela Cooper won the fellowship, which was designed for minority USC students.
By CINDY SANTOS
Contributing Writer
Akela Cooper, a master's student studying writing for screen and television, is the first recipient of the NAACP/CBS Fellowship, a partnership and $20,000 scholarship that helps minority students break into the off-screen side of the entertainment industry.
The NAACP/CBS Fellowship, designed for minority students who offer innovative entertainment perspectives, was created especially for the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Cinema-Television faculty members recommended Cooper for the fellowship. Cooper was initially asked to submit a personal statement highlighting why she wanted to continue her education and her version of a script for an existing television program. Cooper submitted a script she created for the cancelled Fox comedy "Arrested Development.”
She found out during the course of a casual interview with NAACP Hollywood Bureau executive director Vic Bulluck and a representative from CBS that she would be awarded the fellowship.
“I was ecstatic and my first thought was 'I have to call my mom,'”
I see Fellowship page 3 I
INDEX
The men s water polo team will have the home-pool advantage this weekend. 16
“The Colored Museum" ends its three-day run. 7
Newt Digest—2 Sports---------18
Upcoming--------2 Classifieds—12
Opinions.....4 Lifestyle™—™.-.7
RIAA sues four USC students
The RIAA sent subpoenas to USC requesting names and information of students.
By NANCY RODRIGUEZ
Staff Writer
The Recording Industry Association of America has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 745 individuals at 17 college
campuses nationwide, including four USC students.
The students have yet to be contacted and identified by USC, but the subpoenas have been sent to the university requesting the names of four IP address users. Once the university receives the subpoenas, the students will be notified of their lawsuit.
This is the fourth round of lawsuits the RIAA has filed against individual file sharers. The RIAA has filed
about 15,500 lawsuits against users for illegally distributed copyrighted material. Of those 15,500 lawsuits, more than 3,500 have been settled.
The RIAA held an online press conference Friday featuring Cary Sherman, the president of the RIAA, who addressed college journalists regarding the recent lawsuits across college campuses. An RIAA representative moderated the hour-long press conference.
“We know that file-sharing will continue, just as physical piracy will always continue no matter what we do. We all recognize that the most important thing we can do to deal with illegal activity online is give consumers a better alternative — a legal service that they love,” Sherman wrote. “That’s what lots of companies are now doing, and we hope that ultimately the legitimate mar-I see RIAA, page 3 I
www.dailytrojan.com
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
November 22, 2005
Vol. CXL VII. No. 64
INSIDE
The men's basketball team lost in overtime Sunday to Cal State Northridge. 16
Thanksgiving: Daily Trojan resumes publication Tuesday, Nov. 29.2(X)5.